I was going to ship these through by express; but at the last moment an order went throughout Germany forbidding the moving of any parcels by train unless the owner went with them.
I, too, looked up at it with a strange interest, impressed by something gloomy and forbiddingin its aspect.
The soft chime of the Treasury clock was telling out, in confidential tones, the third quarter as I wrapped with my stick on the forbidding "oak" of my friends' chambers.
As his eyes grew more accustomed to the gloom, he saw that the low clouds seemed to be in bands above each other, increasing the strangely forbidding aspect.
This looked soforbidding and meant so much toilsome work, that he felt as if he would rather do the leap, though all the same there was the climb on the other side.
It had been customary to bury five boys and five girls alive on such occasions, but in 503 the king published a decree forbidding the continuance of the custom.
During this same year the law was promulgated forbidding the imprisonment of criminals for long periods of time.
Buddhism received a sudden check in Sil-la at this time for the king took the surest way to crush it out, namely, by forbidding any one to give the monks either money or rice.
He thoroughly approved Steadman's conduct in forbidding me to go and see him,' answered Mary.
Table C 98 gives two sets of statistics on this point, they justify the law in Germany, and in other States, forbidding female labour to deal with lead and lead-containing materials.
For the second the justification is partial; but there is equal reason for forbidding the marriage of normal persons both of whom have mentally defective parents or other close relatives.
Was it his mother, who, so cold and forbidding hitherto, had selected the long wintry interval previous to the last meal of the day to come and whisper with kisses of how she loved and pitied him?
First she directed her course to the provost, at whose forbidding portals she found a stout woman quarrelling with a sentry.
A law was passed in Ohio forbidding the bringing of slaves into the State.
Church of Rome, the absolute interpretation of Scripture; forbidding the people to examine whether she does it rightly or not.
The same instinct is at the back of the "White Australia" laws, forbidding coloured people any right of entry into Australia.
But from Cape Horn to the Gulf of St Lawrence is an Empire of mighty resources, great enough to sate the ambition of any Power, but yet not forbidding the ambition to make it the base for further conquests.
The librarian of the older days was a crabbed and positively forbidding guardian of books.
The custom had been introduced early in the seventeenth century, and never was discontinued, notwithstanding a plain rubric forbidding it.
She looked altogether so dark and forbidding a vision that I gave a start when I saw her thus unexpectedly.
It seems that information, which would be strictly withheld from the forbidding Jorkins, trickles freely and unasked into the ear of the genial Spenlow.
Rather a forbidding exterior," remarked Thorndyke, as he inserted the latchkey, "but it is homely enough inside.
Grass grew and water ran, and their part, allotted by the Lord, was to brave the dangers of that forbidding land that lay under the western sun.
It concluded by forbidding all armed forces of every description to enter the Territory under any pretence whatever, and declaring martial law to exist until further notice.
The declarations on the subject in the Book of Mormon are so worded that we cannot fail to read them as denouncing and forbidding the practise of the Old Testament patriarchs in this matter of the family life.
In earlier times, before the great nations had borrowed to the limit, the heads of these finance houses as "Masters of Europe" exerted great personal influence, permitting or forbidding wars.
So great is the menace of the smoker to property and life that New York has passed a law forbidding smoking in factories.
Had a comparatively definite and innocent clause been added forbidding the affirmation or denial of the doctrine of Transubstantiation, the country would have been up in arms at once.
This practice seemed in effect to be designed more with the object of keeping our people at home in the dark, of forbidding them glory in the deeds of their children and brothers, than of preventing information reaching the enemy.
When General Mott advanced to these forbiddingheights the strength of the enemy in these parts was not realised.
That same May day we came upon a little company of these Sparrows halted by the forbidding aspect of Lake Erie, and dallying for the nonce in the dense thickets which skirted a sluggish tributary.
Nature, in that forbidding clime, cannot afford to dress a busy workman in fine clothes.
Into this forbidding bergschrund, one of the fledgling Leucostictes had tumbled.
The parliamentary remedy for this evil was, an act, passed on the 12th of February, forbidding the sale of bread till four and twenty hours after it had been baked.
Surely, I shall have a much better chance of reforming and reclaiming them by the practice of kindness, than I should have by treating them with neglect, or casting on them the chilling and forbidding look of harshness.
The settlers who went into these new communities went there to establish white communities and they passed laws forbidding the immigration of free colored people into them.
In 1833, Connecticut enacted a law forbidding the setting up or establishment of any school, academy or literary institution for the instruction or education of colored persons who were not inhabitants of the State.
For this direct national insult, explanation, apology, and reparation were demanded, and at the same time the President put forth a proclamation forbidding all British ships of war to remain in American waters.
In November, 1806, Napoleon's Berlin decree was promulgated, forbidding the introduction into France of the products of Great Britain and her colonies, whether in her own ships or those of other nations.
The Duchess of Queensborough, who patronized Gay, being forbidden to attend court, wrote thus: "The Duchess of Queensborough is surprised and well pleased that the King has given her so agreeable a command as forbidding her the court.
But to all Berrendale's attentions she returned the most forbidding reserve; nor could she for a moment lose the painful idea, that the death of Glenmurray would be to him a source of joy, not of anguish.
She therefore wrote another letter to Glenmurray, forbidding him any further intercourse with Adeline, on any pretence whatever; and delayed not a moment to send him her final decision.
